During my days as a systems engineer I build the underlying SAN, compute, network and the VM itself.
...about 8 yrs ago I did say it should probably be behind cloudflare and on azure/aws etc...looks like its still on the machine I built!
Not to pick on you in particular, but I hate this laziness trend from sysadmins that are the cause of the whole centralisation of the Internet. If you have the knowledge to build a SAN and entire architecture yourself, teach that to the youngbloods, instead of just telling them to get AWS credits.
Make the Internet decentralised again.
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Don't give a junior dev a cloud server, but teach them to administer a UNIX machine and they won't need free credits from anyone.
- Confucius
Devs who don't want to be sysadmins, managers who don't want capex maybe.
I really do like your point on teaching young bloods I had assumed much like the knowledge about steam trains it was old knowledge that is becoming not needed.